small indefinite amount vs stone's throw

stone's throw vs small indefinite amount

small indefinite amount and stone's throw both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
small indefinite amount	Yes	No	No	No
stone's throw	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, stone's throw is a hyponym of small indefinite amount; that is, stone's throw is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than small indefinite amount:

small indefinite amount: an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
stone's throw: a short distance

Other hyponyms of small indefinite amount include helping, portion, serving, mouthful, taste, crumb, dab, splash, splatter, bit, spot, hair's-breadth, hair, hairsbreadth, whisker, modicum, scattering, sprinkling, shoe string, shoestring, spray, spraying, nose, step, little, schtick, schtik, shtick, shtik, shade, tad, lower limit, minimum, morsel, handful, smattering, couple, drib, driblet, drop, dollop, dreg, diddley, diddly-shit, diddly-squat, diddly, diddlyshit, diddlysquat, doodly-squat, jack, shit, squat, nip, shot, hint, suggestion, tint, trace, iota, scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit, tot, hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch.

small indefinite amount (noun)	stone's throw (noun)
an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude	a short distance

Difference between small indefinite amount and stone's throw

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